What is the measurement of the city?
Answer
"And the city lies foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the
reed, twelve thousand furlongs." Verse 16.
NOTE - The measure around it, as the words length and breadth imply, and as was the early
custom of measuring cities, is 12,000 furlongs. This is equal to 1,500 miles, 375 miles on each side,
making a perfect square. The area of this city is therefore 140,625 square miles, or 90,000,000 acres, or
3,920,400,000,000 square feet. Allowing 100 square feet to each person, or a space ten feet square, the city
would hold 39,204,000,000 persons, or twenty times the present population of the globe.
What is the measure of the greatness of God's mercy?
How had Christ's teaching by parables been foretold?
What portion of the 2300 days (years) mentioned in the vision, was allotted to the Jews?
What were sinners desiring pardon instructed to do?
What does it mean when used with reference to law?
In His first recorded discourse, what did Christ say of the law?
26. When Israel had apostatized, and were almost universally worshipping Baal, what appeal did Elijah make to them?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle